This was designed to be a study aide. It saves you the step of actually reading all the
session descriptions. If you read the session descriptions (www.ngcrc.com/courses.html), you
will see each course being taught at the NGCRC Gang Training Conference (Aug 5-7, 2019)
has consistent data elements such as: title, duration, session credits, abstract, bio. And in that
order.

We recommend reading each and every course offering and having the registered trainee
make the decision “do I want to attend this session?”. Because in reading all of the courses or
sessions you will read the abstracts and the bios. We certainly recommend that if you want to
increase your professional networking contacts, that you closely study also the bios also listed
at the website (copy this url to your browser: www.ngcrc.com/presenters.html).

You do not have enough time in three days to attend over 100 courses, so you need to
make decisions.

The first decision you need to make if you are registered for Certification is what
courses you want to take in your track area. In the file describing the courses at the website
(copy this url to your browser: www.ngcrc.com/courses.html), you will find a data element
called “Session Credits”, this is where you find out if the course gives credit for your track. If
your track is listed under the session credits for a particular course or session, then that course
or session gives credit for your track. You need to accumulate a minimum of N = 4 hours in
your track specialty area. That is not hard to do. You have to pick and choose what you want
to attend.

So if you did not want to study the courses, just use the “Criss-Cross Study Guide”.
Look up your track on the Criss-Cross Study Guide, and it will reveal what session numbers
give credit for your track, and the number of hours that specific course provides.

Here is an example: assume you signed up for Gang Crime Investigation Skills as your
track. You will see all kinds of sessions listed for that track on the Criss-Cross Study Guide,
starting from Session #1 which is two (2) hours in length, and goes on and on, there are nearly
fifty courses that give session credits for this track. So when you see the digits “1 (2)”, and that
these data elements are always separated by a semicolon “;”, so that means Session #1 in the
course listings gives two (2) hours of credit for this track. Similarly, Session #2 gives 1.5 hours
of credit for this course. And session #3 provides two (2) hours of credit for this track. So if
you just completed the first three listings you would have completed your minimum
requirement of accumulating at least four (4) hours in your track area. All of the courses are
listed sequentially by session number in ascending order, from #1 to beyond #100, in the
“courses” section we recommend you study at the website.

Once you get to the conference, you will find a book in your goody bag that is like a
printed version of the “COURSES” listing at the NGCRC website. It is the grey book:
specifically identified as Volume 26, Number 3, Spring 2019 issue of the Journal of Gang
Research. It has the full course descriptions in print, those we knew about prior to going to
press in the Spring, of course; newly added courses would not be printed in the Vol. 26, No. 3
issue, you would need to check at the website for updates.

The training program requires you accumulate a total of 24 hours of training. Within
that 24 hours of training, 4 of them need to be in your track area. You can spend the other 20
hours as electives: concentrating in your track area, or any other area you are eligible to enroll
in (only criminal justice personnel can enroll in the Motorcycle Gang track). If you are a
Double Major, you need four hours in each of the two tracks, leaving 16 hours of “electives”:
you can spend those 16 hours in any of the courses you are eligible to attend (note that a small
number of the courses restrict attendance to police officers).

You do not need any of this information if you are registered for Non-Certification.
This information is useful only if you are registered for Certification.

The Criss-Cross Study Guide:

The Listing of Sessions that give credit for specific training tracks.

This classifies sessions #1 thru #85 by Track (courses that give credit for that track).

A: Yes, as seen in this Study Guide, at the 2019 Conference the curriculum is so large in terms
of session material on the schedule to pick from, that a person could easily spend their entire 24
hours by attending only sessions that offer credit in Gang Crime Investigation Skills. But if you
selected the training track for Gang Crime Investigation Skills, your 2nd certificate still only
recognizes the minimum requirement that you spent at least four hours in your training track
area.

Q: Could I spend my entire 24 hours of training picking only courses in Gang Prosecution?

A: Yes, as of March 8, 2018 there were 101 courses classified in this “criss cross directory”,
and for training track #21 (Gang Prosecution) if you add up all the courses giving credit for
Gang Prosecution, you get a total of 31.5 different hours of training content available for Gang
Prosecution alone. That means one person alone could not attend all of the material available
in Gang Prosecution alone. It would take two people to cover all of the material available for
Gang Prosecution alone.